Productivity

Trello is a collaboration tool that organizes your projects into boards. I use it when I am making lists of investors/advisors/mentors to contact and need to move them along to another list (E.g.: To be contacted, to another list ‘contacted’ / ‘follow up’ etc.). Other people use it as their everyday task list.

Need some growth experiments done? Hire a growth geek.
I have used Growth Geeks for a few tasks and there are some great people on it, but there are also others that are clearly just outsourcing the work. The quality has varied over time.

This is the latest software that I have been using as a sales tool to contact potential customers. Even though they have raised $2 million it still needs a bit of work but I am looking forward to seeing what they do.

Again another favourite.Intercom is essentially a CRM and live chat tool in one. Once it has been integrated with your site, as a non-technical person, I can build out email funnels to get in touch with leads and customers. I can see how many times they have been on the site, placed an order and send them targeted messages.

Being busy, I found that I started getting lazy and reaching for the closest snack. In San Francisco, this is usually a pastry, cookie or muffin at the closest coffee shop.
So, yes, I outsource my shopping when I stay at the office until 10pm and need my groceries delivered. I have no excuse not to be healthy.

Product & Development

I have only recently started working with a product manager. Previous to this, I was the product manager and I would spec everything out in a word document and in moqups. Now, we use Invision which allows everyone to add comments on the wireframes and design. We are definitely more efficient.

Logos and design

Envato is a collection of multiple websites and tools but my favourite is ThemeForestwhere you can get all these themes you want to start a website. If you are bootstrapping your company, I definitely would not design something from scratch.

I am part of a small members-only network in San Francisco which allows me to build close and honest relationships with other founders. I think when you are building a company, this is really important.

Holly Cardew is the founder Pixc and was listed as a Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia emerging entrepreneur to watch in the ecommerce and retail space.

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Paul Dillon

Great list! Like yourself I use Asana, Trello and Google Drive daily. I use picjumbo to complement Unsplash for images. Absolutely adore Canva for designing graphics on the fly. Cal (calendar) and Any.do (tasks) are useful on my phone. I use toggl for tracking my time (I know Harvest integrates with Asana but I haven’t tried it yet). Looking forward to seeing the next iteration of your list.

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